To A. B. Buckley 16 August [1880]1
Cambridge
Aug. 16th
My dear Miss Buckley
It is an entire blunder of Mr Packard. I have described briefly in Origin the slave making process, as seen by myself.—2 I have, however, remarked (speaking from memory) that apparently F. sanguinea does not attend so much to Aphides in England as on the continent.—3
My dear Miss Buckley | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Buckley, Arabella Burton. 1880. Life and her children: glimpses of animal life from the amoeba to the insects. London: E. Stanford.
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Packard, Alpheus Spring, Jr. 1880b. Guide to the study of insects. 7th edition. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Summary
Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12689
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Arabella Burton Buckley
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
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